EECS20N: Signals and Systems

Hybrid Systems

Hybrid systems combine time-based signals with event sequences. To effectively combine them, the events in the event sequence have to be associated with a time. Thus, we replace the event sequence

x: Naturals0Symbols

with

x: TSymbols

where T is either Naturals0, Integers, Reals+, or Reals. For most t in T, x(t) = absent, the stuttering element in Symbols. When x(t) is not absent, then we interpret t to mean the time at which the event x(t) occurs.

Now we can define systems that mix time-based signals with event sequences.